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Everything Changes, Everything The Same

15 Tuesday May 2018

Posted by laurencereade in G

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Goytre, GroundhopUK, Llanelli Town, Penperlleni, Plough Road, Pontypool, Wales, Welsh League, Welsh Spring Hop

Friday 13th April 2018 ko 19.30

Welsh League Division One

GOYTRE 1 (Leek 17)

LLANELLI TOWN 4 (Loveridge 15 45 90 C Jones 39) Vickers sent off 50 (dangerous play)

Att 151

Entry & Programme £5

For the last few years the Welsh Spring Hop has been based in West Wales, firstly in Ceredigion then for the last 2 events in Carmarthenshire. We’d had a few issues organising last year’s hop and this proved to even worse! In the end only the first and last games of the hop remained the same, visits to Goytre and Butetown and significantly neither of those clubs are in the Carmarthenshire League! The problems Chris Berezai faced were many and varied but can be neatly summed up as follows. Continue reading →

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Calan Hen

17 Sunday Mar 2013

Posted by laurencereade in L

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Calan Hen, Ceredigion League, Dean Jones, Gethin Davies, groundhop, Llandysul, Memorial Park, Rev Enoch James, Saron, Simon Davies, soccer, Sports, Teifi, welsh harp, welsh language books, Welsh Spring Hop

Sunday 10th March 2013 ko 13.30

Ceredigion League Division Two

LLANDYSUL 4 (S Davies 39 51 D Jones 71 83p)

SARON 3 (G Davies 17 77 85)

Att 206

Entry & Programme by Hop Ticket

Badge £3

Even as organiser groundhops always seem to fly by, and I felt slightly melancholy as the coach pulled into the public car park by Llandysul Memorial Park. The club gave an immediate good impression as they’d placed a steward by the “Pay and display,” machine to make such the coach didn’t have to pay the £1.20 to park there. It was unnecessary, but appreciated, and was a good indication of how much thought the club had put into their day. Like St Dogmaels the previous day, the club got the local populace involved making a bumper crowd. Continue reading →

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